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Cupich supports pope, acknowledges ‘crisis of faith’ caused by sex-abuse scandal.They staged a public protest using printed posters showing the flag of Côte dIvoire in error, thinking it was the Irish flag. “What the pastor and some of his parishioners did shows the kind of hatred that LGBT Catholics still face - in their own church.” MORE: Septem( LifeSiteNews) Cardinal Blase Cupich has removed a priest in his archdiocese from his parish in apparent retaliation for his decision to burn a homosexualist rainbow pride. Following the approval of gay marriage by popular national vote in Ireland on, the Westboro Baptist Church said that Ireland was led by 'dogs' and had become a 'cesspool of corruption'. “I cannot imagine a more homophobic act, short of beating up an LGBT person,” Martin tweeted on Tuesday. James Martin, who has written extensively on welcoming gay and lesbian Catholics into the church - a tone often shared by Cupich and Pope Francis. The flag-burning controversy drew the attention of prominent priest and author Rev. 2 notice in the parish newsletter, Kalchik said that he would burn the banner, which he believed to symbolize a homosexual agenda contrary to Church. Kalchik - who says he was sexually abused by a neighbor as a child, and again by a priest when he began working for the church at 19 - claims the sex-abuse crisis plaguing the church is “definitely a gay thing,” a claim that Mell called “completely ludicrous.”